These ridiculous ideas are tearing apart civilization.  People don’t think they can perform surgery just because they’ve watched a medical drama, yet they read a few headlines and believe they understand economics, both are equally delusional.

The economist is always dragged into politics—not because he speaks about politics, but because politicians won’t stop speaking about economics.  They impose their will with no understanding of the subject, acting as if policy dictates reality.  This is as absurd as designing a car without knowing how an engine works.  Yet, instead of admitting their ignorance, they parade their incompetence as wisdom, force-feeding the public economic fairy tales that collapse under scrutiny.

They claim to be practical, they aren’t.  They smuggle in their own ethic—one that justifies coercion.  Economics is about truth, not about making power-hungry bureaucrats feel good.  The economist describes reality, the politician prescribes fantasies.  The economist points out that no system is perfect—a fact the pseudo-economist twists into an argument for more government control, exploiting the nirvana fallacy.. The honest man is scorned because he refuses to sell utopias.

The political class doesn’t seek truth, it seeks obedience.  A real economist dismantles illusions and exposes flaws in their grand schemes.  Politicians don’t want flaws exposed, they want validation.  So, they turn to pseudo-experts, charlatans who will manufacture the right talking points, who will dress absurdity in academic jargon, who will call theft ‘redistribution’ and inflation ‘stimulus.’ These frauds are rewarded, while those who speak the truth are mocked, censored, or ignored.

Those who expose these fallacies are attacked, not debated.  The apologists of statism do not engage with arguments, they drown them through incessant babbling.  They promote impossible schemes or ones that require violence.  The truth is inconvenient, and most people prefer a comforting lie.  As Goethe warned, “What is false is usually more comfortable for feeble people.”

The deception is relentless.  The destruction we witness is not caused by capitalism but by statism.  It’s impossible to love humanity and hate free markets.  Likewise, it is impossible to fix statism with more statism.  The path we are on leads only to ruin.  Lies and coercion destroy both reason and civilization.  Seek the truth, not the approval of those who fear it.

References

Ludwig von Mises; Economic Freedom and Interventionism

Friedrich Nietzsche; On Truth and Untruth